On August 24, 2013, I spoke to the incoming freshman class at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. To my great delight, my book Reality is Broken was chosen as the summer reading project, for all 4000 students. So I was happy to come speak to them in person — and even happier to design a special game for the occasion. Below is the text of my speech, which includes instructions for playing the game.

Please, if you are reading this, join in the game with us. Even if you’re not a member of any “Class of 2017”, you can surely imagine yourself four years from now, hopefully on the other side of some great obstacle or challenge that you are tackling now or hope to tackle soon. Imagine someone else, somewhere near you, is also facing a tough challenge — one they’ve chosen for themselves, like college, or a…